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How Many of these French Expressions Do You Know?

Learning French is tough and with all the bizarre expressions out there it is no wonder why it leaves people scratching their heads with confusion. Below we put together a quiz with illustrations create by James Chapman to see if you can guess what some of these strange French expression mean.

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